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  • Edward Baker

    Developing soil health indicators to inform land management decisions and increase crop yield and quality.

  • Jessica Fostvedt

    Understanding the epidemiology of fungal pathogens and their impact on seasonal variation in avocado quality throughout the supply chain.

  • Dion Garrett

    Using landscape genomics to improve management of insect pest species.

  • Hannah McGrath

    Bespoke field margins for delivering multiple benefits to fresh produce.

  • Mandy Stoker

    Adding evidence to decision-making regarding cover and catch crops.

  • Nicholas Kuht

    Enhancing salad onion quality through an understanding of in-field variation.

  • Alex Blomfield

    Dispersal ecology and population persistence of an endangered butterfly in a fragmented semi-natural habitat within an agricultural landscape.

  • Konstantinos Tsiolis

    Bee Nesting resources: the missing element of sustainable crop pollination.

  • Patrick Skilleter

    Soil management and irrigation interactions affecting root-to-shoot signalling and yield of potato.

  • Nick Buck

    Integrating control of a major new pest with biocontrol and pollination in raspberries: Key challenges and solutions.

  • Anastasia Sokolidi

    Smart detection of airborne diseases in protected crops.

  • Helena Ripley

    Maximising the effectiveness of riparian buffer zones.

  • Dominic Stevenson

    Can inherited memories of stress help protect crops from pests and disease?

  • Alex Bleasdale

    Sustainable intensification of top fruit production through precision orchard management using novel remote sensing technologies

  • Miranda Burke

    Can we reduce food waste in the supply chain from farm to fork?

  • Pete Jorgensen

    Development and Testing of an online Knowledge Exchange Tool for food and farming

  • Max Davis

    Improving soil health in apple and pear orchards

  • Sam Cusworth

    Can we reduce the use of single use plastics in food production?

  • Chris Wyver

    Quantifying and mitigating spatio-temporal risks to pollination services caused by climate change

  • Kiera Dymond

    Sustainable avocado production: Challenges, solutions and the role of biodiversity

  • Jamie Pike

    New tools for predicting spread of Fusarium wilt in bananas

  • Lucy Crowther

    Novel approaches for the application and formulation of biological pesticides for crop protection

  • Ellie Barbrook

    Optimising soil nitrogen (N) for babyleaf salad crops for sustainable development.

  • Laine Callaghan

    Precision Apiculture: enhancing the health and effectiveness of managed honeybees for soft fruit production

  • Ed Hill King

    Novel non-destructive detection of internal defects in potatoes

  • Laura Reeves

    Climate driven mismatches in fruit, pest and natural enemy phenology to mitigate crop damage

  • Catherine Walsh

    Optimizing yield and flavour consistency of rocket greens